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Open Source: 'Free' is becoming more pricey

By Dick Weisinger

SD Times had an interesting observation about how expensive it’s getting to be to buy an Open Source company.

Company Buyer Price Year
XenSource Citrix Systems $500 Million 2007
JBoss Red Hat $350 Million 2006
Check Point Software SourceFile $225 Million 2005
SuSE GmbH Novell $210 Million 2003
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